LOS ANGELES -- There has been a lot of controversy about the oil-extraction procedure known as "fracking." Now more questions are being raised about how much water is used for fracking, and whether it ...

A newly minted bill in the legislative session that would allow the discharge of treated oil and gas wastewater into New ...

FILE - Work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa., March 12, 2020. Facing the need to win Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris has sworn off any prior assertion that she ...

Fracking – a controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil from underground – is a deeply divisive topic. Some say it damages property and causes pollution, while others contend it is a safe, ...

Trump is hitting Harris with TV ads about her fracking flip. But the drilling process might not be as important to voters as pundits suggest. If it’s true that support for a fracking ban is surefire ...

Fracking isn't a new thing and neither is the controversy behind it. But now it's on the national political stage as the 2024 race for the White House heats up. Republicans have started to circulate ...

If you report on the environmental issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing and shale natural gas, you’ll hear a certain line from gas industry representatives over and over: there has never been a ...

Let's begin with a riddle - what do insecticides, make-up removers, and antiperspirants have in common with hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking', the booming industrial process that removes natural gas ...

Fracked wells in West Texas don't just produce petroleum. Much more than anything else, they spit up salty, mucky water. Typically, companies have discarded that fluid, hundreds of millions of gallons ...

While voters and many municipal governments have decided to restrict fracking, few have banned it altogether. That is why shock waves resonated through those involved in the fracking process when 59 ...